Sentences with phrase «white affluent families»

Chicago officials claim they can not force white students into schools with predominately poor and minority students, for fear that white affluent families will flee public schools.

Not exact matches

A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

Rose's parents, Dean and Missy — played by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, respectively — are the kind of affluent liberal white people who can't be racist because they consider their black servants to be «like family».

The city's many impoverished African American and Hispanic students continue to lag far behind their white counterparts, who typically live in much more affluent families.

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

This situation is not only a sad outgrowth of America's socioeconomic divide but also a huge problem for universities and employers, considering that birthrates are flat or down among the affluent white suburban families that have traditionally sent their kids to college.

That's changed because more families (mostly white, virtually all of them affluent and well - educated) are living in west - of - the - park neighborhoods like Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase.

And the assessment shows that white voucher students from more affluent families do better — just as in public school.

Although specific numbers aren't available, it's clear that Bingham and White helped draw more affluent Society Hill families to McCall.

At the same time, gaps persist among students from low - income families and their more affluent peers, for English language learners, and for many minority students when compared with their Asian and white classmates.

And even more, White and affluent families who audaciously criticize families for choosing to look for better school options, haven't opted into those same schools.

That's why Robert Pondiscio concludes that the opting out is «a thing» primarily among «affluent, white, progressive families» that puts them «on a collision course with the low - income families of color who have been the primary beneficiaries of testing and accountability.»

Before her family moved closer to the city, where they could afford more living space, she attended the more affluent Upper Moreland district, which is predominantly white and, according to state and local records, spends about $ 1,200 more per student than William Penn..

Lots of affluent, mainly white families have been moving into new condos in the waterfront area called DUMBO, and the local elementary school is getting overcrowded.

The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

«Black and Latino families want world class public schools for our children, just as white and affluent families do.

This year's NAEP results show persistent achievement gaps between students of color and from low income families and their peers who are White or from more affluent families.

Research shows that teachers of color help close achievement gaps for students of color and are highly rated by students of all races — a fact that is all the more relevant in light of persistent gaps between students of color and students from low income families and their peers who are White or from more affluent families.

Then you should be intellectually honest and tell them that you are glad that their kid's seat went to some white kid from an affluent family living in West Hartford.

But I raise this point because when it comes to climate survivalism, the little brown folks are nowhere to be seen, and apparently it's every relatively affluent white guy (and his nuclear family, of course) for himself.